{"id":3923446,"date":"2026-01-06T10:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/alma-devours-cosmic-hamburger-reveals-potential-for-giant-planet-formation\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:04:16","slug":"alma-devours-cosmic-hamburger-reveals-potential-for-giant-planet-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/alma-devours-cosmic-hamburger-reveals-potential-for-giant-planet-formation\/","title":{"rendered":"ALMA devours cosmic &#8216;hamburger,&#8217; reveals potential for giant planet formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Have you ever found something unexpected in your hamburger? Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) were surprised to discover the very earliest phases of giant planet formation between the dense layers of gas and dust in the &#8220;Gomez&#8217;s Hamburger&#8221; system, referred to as GoHam. This research, currently in preparation for publication, was presented at a press conference at the American Astronomical Society&#8217;s annual meeting (AAS 2026), held  January 4\u20138 in Phoenix.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-alma-devours-cosmic-hamburger-reveals.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever found something unexpected in your hamburger? Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) were surprised to discover the very earliest phases of giant planet formation between the dense layers of gas and dust in the &#8220;Gomez&#8217;s Hamburger&#8221; system, referred to as GoHam. This research, currently in preparation for publication, was presented [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}